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The Norwegian Afghanistan Committee (NAC) has been implementing a Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) program in Badakhshan since January 2011. This is one of the most vulnerable provinces to many types of natural disaster in the region. Recently NAC has secured a 3 year funded DRR project with the following objectives;
To reduce human, social, e…
Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA)
Afghanistan is a landlocked country with an area of 652,864 sq Km (ref.syb 08-09). The climate is mostly dry with extremes of cold winters and hot summers. Nature’s destructive patterns routinely affect and wreak havoc in the country. Earthquakes are frequent in northern parts of the country an…
Major duties and responsibilities
Specifically, the Job holder shall perform the following tasks:
• Assist the Head of Division in the overall management of the activities of the Climate Change and Desertification Control Unit;
• Assist in preparation of reports, budget and work programmes related to the functioning of the Unit, in consultation with t…
1. Background
In Africa the occurrence of disasters triggered by natural and human made hazards , the number of people affected and the associated economic losses are all rising. Africa’s share of total reported world disasters has increased over the past decades. Most of the disasters affecting Africa are caused by Hydro-meteorological hazards like…
Line Manager: Head of Programmes
General Description of Programme:
GOAL has been operational in Malawi since 2002 and currently has programmes in HIV/AIDS, WASH, livelihoods, food security and disaster risk reduction.
GOAL Malawi’s head office is in Lilongwe, with a large Field Office in Nsanje in the extreme south of Malawi. This office coordinates…
The second Africa Drylands Week was held three years after the first one held in Dakar, Senegal in 2011. The participants reviewed successes as well as challenges facing drylands development, including sustainable land management and resilience to climate change related risks.
In particular, they reviewed the tremendous advances in land regeneration th…
The Resilience Academy
In the most vulnerable regions of our planet, the impact of extreme weather events such as floods, droughts and cyclones threaten lives and livelihoods. The most affected regions include large deltas, small islands and exposed coastal regions as well as arid and semiarid lands, and areas affected by glacier and permafrost melt. P…
This report presents Botswana’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, drought and wildfire, and discusses country’s institutional and legal framework for disaster reduction. It provides directives on the elaboration of effective national disaster management programme and outlines key definitions, measures and responsibilities for the prepar…
In Malawi, the impact of extreme weather events has significantly contributed to the recurrent crises of food insecurity. This analytical work was undertaken to assist the Government of Malawi to strengthen its efforts toward effectively responding to extreme weather-related events, especially El Niño and La Niña phenomena. Specifically, the study…
El presente documento recoge el proceso metodológico desarrollado por el Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno (CIIFEN) de El Niño a través de 10 años de experiencia, el cual ha constituido la base para el análisis de los efectos del cambio climático en sistemas poblacionales, ambientales, etc., con el fin de permitir a los tomadores d…
The El Niño event in 2015/2016 was one of the strongest since at least 1950. Through surveys and interviews with key informants, this report finds that businesses in the capital cities of Zambia, Botswana and Kenya experienced major disruption to their activities from El Niño related hydroelectric load shedding, water supply disruption and flooding…
The improving resilience in South Sudan (IRISS) project – funded by DFID’s building resilience and adaptation to climate extremes and disasters (BRACED) programme – sought to increase resilience to drought and floods for targeted communities, especially women and girls, while also contributing to evidence-based learning related to developing climate cha…
This paper introduces a framework of practical entry points at the national and local level for addressing climate change adaptation and resilience and maps them across the agriculture value chain and non-farming options in South Asia. The paper also identifies and discusses the critical challenges and knowledge gaps that currently exist in in…
This study analyses HIV prevalence in rural Lesotho among adolescent girls exposed to severe drought, as well as the possible underlying causes of contraction, such as drought-responsive sex work and transactional marriages that inhibited educational attainment. To determine if there were any associations between drought and HIV-related outcomes, the au…
This report, which focuses on three regions—Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America that together represent 55 percent of the developing world’s population—finds that climate change will push tens of millions of people to migrate within their countries by 2050.
It projects that without concrete climate and development action, just over 143 mi…